Fishing License Becomes Issue for Liz Cheney in Wyoming Senate Race
By RICHARD L. BERKE, NYT
It sounds like a small-bore infraction: Liz Cheney, a United States Senate candidate in Wyoming, bought a state fishing license last summer even though she had not lived in the state for a year, as required.
But the matter has inflamed her critics in the state, who have already labeled her an interloper and taken issue with her challenge to Senator Michael B. Enzi in next year’s Republican primary. Mr. Enzi is a popular three-term incumbent who is as conservative as Ms. Cheney.
“It’s a serious misstep,” said Liz Brimmer, a Republican strategist in Wyoming and former chief of staff to former Senator Craig Thomas, a Republican. “Allegedly poaching in a state where being a resident sportsman is, by law, an earned privilege. Wyoming people will take this very seriously.”
According to state records, Ms. Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, bought the $24 game and hunting license in August of 2012 at Westbank Anglers in Teton Village. She had moved to the state the previous May. She is also listed on the application of having lived in Wyoming for 10 years.
(More here.)
It sounds like a small-bore infraction: Liz Cheney, a United States Senate candidate in Wyoming, bought a state fishing license last summer even though she had not lived in the state for a year, as required.
But the matter has inflamed her critics in the state, who have already labeled her an interloper and taken issue with her challenge to Senator Michael B. Enzi in next year’s Republican primary. Mr. Enzi is a popular three-term incumbent who is as conservative as Ms. Cheney.
“It’s a serious misstep,” said Liz Brimmer, a Republican strategist in Wyoming and former chief of staff to former Senator Craig Thomas, a Republican. “Allegedly poaching in a state where being a resident sportsman is, by law, an earned privilege. Wyoming people will take this very seriously.”
According to state records, Ms. Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, bought the $24 game and hunting license in August of 2012 at Westbank Anglers in Teton Village. She had moved to the state the previous May. She is also listed on the application of having lived in Wyoming for 10 years.
(More here.)
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